COPYRIGHT LAW 2022- Materials (only for students who ACTUALLY and REGULARLY have attended lessons)
WARNING: AS WRITTEN IN THE WEBSITE OF THE COURSE AND TOLD IN CLASS, YOU MUST BOOK THE EXAM THROUGH ALMAESAMI ONLY AND, ACCORDINGLY, THE DEADLINE FOR BOOKING IS ONE WEEK BEFORE (NO MORE). NO LATER REQUESTS TO BE IN THE LIST OR TO HAVE THE EXAM IN ANOTHER DAY WILL BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT FOR BOTH ORGANIZATIVE REASONS AND RESEARCH MEETINGS ABROAD BY THE TEACHER.
Not attending students's Primer/Handbook is specified in the Copyright Law 2021/22 website.
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INTERNATIONAL/EU BASIC PROVISIONS:
Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works
https://wipolex.wipo.int/en/treaties/textdetails/12214
Articles: 1(all) - 2(all) -2bis §1, 2 -3 - 6bis(all)* - 8(all) - 9 (all) - 10 (all)* - 10bis(all)* - 11(all)* -11bis, § 1* - 12(all)* - 14, § 1.
General Overwiew: https://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/berne/summary_berne.html
TRIPS AGREEMENT
https://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/legal_e/27-trips_01_e.htm
Articles (all of them): 9*, 10*, 13*, 14 (only §§ 1, 2, 3).
General Overview:
https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/trips_e/intel2_e.htm#:~:text=The%20TRIPS%20Agreement%20requires%20Member,novelty%2C%20inventiveness%20and%20industrial%20applicability.
WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT)
https://wipolex.wipo.int/en/treaties/textdetails/12740
Articles (all of them):
1, 2, ,3, 4, 5, 8.
General Overview: https://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/wct/summary_wct.html
WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT)
https://wipolex.wipo.int/en/treaties/textdetails/12743
Articles 5 - 6 -7 - 10 -11- 14 (only the basic subject-matter in comparison with the parallel WCT provisions)
General Overview: https://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/wppt/summary_wppt.html
Directive 2001/29/EC of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society (INFOSOC Directive)
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A32001L0029
Articles 2 - 3 - 5
Directive 2019/790/EU of 17 April 2019 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market
Optional and only a brief summary of the main provisions, as explained in the last lecture, is required.
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2019/790/oj
17 U.S. Code § 107 - Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use*
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107
U.S. CASE LAW
- Rogers v. Koons, 960 F.2d 301 (2d Cir. 1992) http://openjurist.org/960/f2d/301/rogers-v-koons
- Blanch v. Koons, 467 F.3d 244 (2d Cir. 2006) http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-2nd-circuit/1374144.html
- Liebovitz v. Paramount Pictures Corp., 137 F.3d 109 http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-2nd-circuit/1306605.html
- Feist Publications, Inc., v. Rural Telephone Service Co. (1991) https://case.edu/affil/sce/authorship/feist.pdf
EU CASE LAW:
(the linked pages permit to choose the decisions among many national languages other than English, if the student wishes to read the judgment - for clarity's sake - in his/her own national language, too)
1) INFOPAQ Case:
http://curia.europa.eu/juris/celex.jsf?celex=62008CJ0005&lang1=it&type=TXT&ancre=
2) LEVOLA Case*:
http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?docid=207682&mode=req&pageIndex=1&dir=&occ=first&part=1&text=&doclang=EN&cid=3576155
3) PELHAM Case*:
http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?docid=216552&doclang=EN
4) DECKMYN Case*:
http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?docid=157281&doclang=EN
5) RENCKHOFF Case:
http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?docid=204738&doclang=EN
6) COFEMEL case*:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:62017CJ0683&from=it
7) BROMPTON Case*:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:62018CJ0833&from=EN
8) SPIEGEL ON LINE Case:
http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=216543&pageIndex=0&doclang=en&mode=lst&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=3336017
9) SGAE v. RAPHAEL HOTELES Case:
https://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?docid=66355&doclang=EN
10) SVENSSON Case:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A62012CJ0466
11) SOFTWAROVA Case
https://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?docid=83458&doclang=en
12) BRITISH HORSERACING
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A62002CJ0203
The cases are also included in the VIRTUALE dropbox in .pdf format. Substantial parts have been underlined by the Professor, in order to avoid procedural or other matters not relevant for the analysis in class and the exam. However, if the underlined portions are not clear enough to the student for the legal reasoning of the rationale, the student can/must read also the other connected parts for well understanding and explaining the case in the oral exam if he or she deems it necessary.
Pubblicato il: 20 aprile 2022
